How Google Product / API Pages Can be Spammed

February 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.

February 27th, 2006 Google has newly introduced Google Pages which allows you to create your webpages with AJAX interface (Web 2.0?). It is quite a slick product, provides 100MB of space, file uploading etc.

July 21st, 2006 Accessible Search is a Google Labs product which will identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that are most relevant.

April 13th, 2005 Nowadays I have noticed that Google apparently confers pagerank only to the front page of the blog. All other pages appear to have a rank of zero! I have noticed it across a wide spectrum of blogs, even blogs with very high pageranks.

November 28th, 2005 Imagine a pickpocket leaving a note in the pocket they have picked informing the victim that they are very sorry about picking their pocket and what he can do to rectify the situation. Neil found ethical spammers in his wiki (read about wiki spamming) who left a note after they spammed: < !– We leave content intact.

June 23rd, 2008 Would you believe if I said that GMail does not provide an email address to report spam? After some investigation I found how you can report GMail spam to Google. You have received spam from GMail user in your GMail account This one is simple to address.

September 9th, 2007 Spammer of the day - Florida based Interactive Marketing Group repeatedly spammed us 86 times abusing our Contact Form touting their ImgSite[dot]net service from the IP address 85.255.121.130. They are our spammer of the day.

February 23rd, 2008 I recently came across an instance of Google Proxy hacking with one of my clients, which removed his index page and other pages from SERP (Search Engine Ranking & Positioning) and he lost the page ranks (went down to zero). We were asked to protect his site against Google Proxy hacking, a really dangerous technique which can not only cause you to loose page rank but also remove your pages from SERP, all because Google cannot properly identify original pages from duplicates.

April 12th, 2005 Site Owners often detest the fact that google caches an old copy of their site and displays it on searches which brings up the site pages. A simple way to prevent robots (including Google, Yahoo etc.) from caching your site contents is to include the following within the head section of your web page.

September 24th, 2007 A simple google search reveals over 55.5 million pages are generated using WordPress today. The WordPress search volume shows a healthy increase over time as can be seen from the graph.

August 2nd, 2006 Google Analytics increased the number of default profiles from 5 to 10. This increases the number of websites you can track.

March 12th, 2008 I was just spammed (unsolicited commercial email) by Storrz, first (I think) online shopping mall in India (remember WebVan?). They state that orders received before 12 PM will be delivered by 2 PM the next day, anywhere in India.

November 17th, 2005 This stupid and nasty spammer - my-pills.be spammed me 918 time in less than 24 hours and all the while repeatedly fetching only my home page! Guess what happens? They are into my permanent ban list. Hasta-la-vista morons - my-pills.be! After I aggresively started banning the new crop of referer spammers, my bandwidth usage has come down from last month, despite almost 50% increase of traffic! Think how much damage they are doing to everyone.

December 10th, 2008 Google digitises printing media. In addition to books and newspapers, Google Book Search now archives millions of pages of magazines from New York Magazineand Ebony to Popular Mechanics.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.